Author: Lancelot Schaubert
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Outdoor Types
In Carthage, Missouri, every once and awhile you’ll catch outdoor types bringing mattresses in the beds of their trucks to the drive in theater. They get frisky, but mostly just make out. If they do anything else, it’s not like the squeaking of truck suspension interrupts you while watching Pixar films with your kids. They…
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Chat GPT Ethics, Uses, and Other Ai Ethics — Heliosphere
We gathered at Heliosphere this year for several panels and one included a talk on Chat GPT Ethics, Uses, and Other Ai Ethics. The talk featured Chris Kreuter, Renee Ritchie, and Elektra Hammond — so of course, I was out of my league trying to keep my head above water. We talked through all manner ethical…
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Writers Group Near You — House Points
Starlings NYC has met since 2016 which is, as of 2023, seven years ago. I figured we would start keeping track of “house points.” As in 10 points for Griffyndor. There’s a writers group near you — what if they kept track of group points? Only in this case, it’s sales. And we’ll do it in…
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Story Inspiration from Breaking Science
The wonderful folks who run Heliosphere invited me to moderate and participate in several panels for their conference. One of the panels was Story Inspiration from Breaking Science. The panel included Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Dr. James Prego, and Sarena Strauss. We started out hypothesizing from various abstracts we’d come across. We — mostly me — got a bit…
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The lie: “It’s just art.”
A person undeservedly close to me recently scoffed at the words of a set designer here in NYC recently. They said, “It’s not worth it. It’s just art.” This person intended, of course, to aim this barb at me and my life’s work. At someone who had structured their entire life around encouraging people to…
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You Are More Creative Than Me
You’re more creative than me. You are. Or — at very least — equally creative. That belief motivates and empowers my own creativity: you, reading this right now, are more creative than me, Lancelot Schaubert. If you don’t believe that, you aren’t thinking clearly. It’s okay to not be thinking clearly — muddleheadedness affects me all the time…
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Heliosphere Convention Schedule 2023
Hey gang, just got my Heliosphere convention schedule this last week, so I wanted to toss it in here in case anyone’s coming. We’re bringing several writers and creative types down to New Jersey from NYC: FRIDAY 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm – Salon CExploring the Uses and Ethics of ChatGPT and Other AI Models…
